Richard Flusser Author:Michael Lydon Richard Flusser and the After Dinner Opera Company tells the tale of a little opera company that could. An opera lover since childhood, Richard Flusser founded the After Dinner Opera Company in 1950. Through the thick and thin of fifty years and always on a shoestring, he and his wife Beth, with dozens of talented singers, have produced ... more »hundreds of American comic operas, many of them historic debuts: in 1956 the ADO became the first American company to take American operas to Europe.« less